Re: Codespell report for "Wget" (on fossies.org)

[Tim Rühsen]

The typos are fixed now, a script 'spell-checking' has been added and is
used in the CI now.

Regards, Tim

On 2/20/20 4:01 PM, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> quite a nice service, thank you for all that work. It's awesome !
> 
> We are aware of codespell but so far only use it as a CI check for
> Wget2[1]. We didn't bother to backport the script yet to Wget 1.x.
> See [2] and [3].
> 
> Indeed we plan for a new release - so you put some pressure on us to
> correct all those misspellings now :-)
> 
> We will not correct words in "ChangeLog", as this is automatically
> generated from git commit messages. And we can't change git commit
> messages as this would destroy history (blockchain, you know ;-)).
> 
> There is also m4/po.m4 that we won't change, as it is from gettext.
> 
> Regards, Tim
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2
> [2] https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/blob/master/contrib/spell-checker
> [3] https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml#L74
> 
> 
> On 2/20/20 11:19 AM, Fossies Administrator wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the FOSS server fossies.org - also supporting "Wget" - offers a new
>> feature "Source code misspelling reports":
>>
>>  https://fossies.org/features.html#codespell
>>
>> Such reports are normally only generated on request, but as Fossies
>> administrator I have just created an analysis for the current "Wget"
>> release 1.20.3 (since a new release seems coming soon):
>>
>>  https://fossies.org/linux/www/wget/codespell.html
>>
>> That version-independent (not linked) URL should redirect always to the
>> last report (if available), so currently to
>>
>>  https://fossies.org/linux/www/wget-1.20.3.tar.lz/codespell.html
>>
>> Although after a first review some obviously wrong matches ("false
>> positives") are already filtered out (ignored) please inform me if you
>> find more of them so that I can force a new improved check if applicable.
>>
>> Just for information there are also two supplemental pages
>>
>>  https://fossies.org/linux/misc/wget/codespell_conf.html
>>
>> showing some used "codespell" configurations and
>>
>>  https://fossies.org/linux/misc/wget/codespell_fps.html
>>
>> Although except for the "usual" errors in the ChangeLog file only few
>> and unspectacular errors are found I hope that the report can be
>> nevertheless a little bit helpful.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jens
>>
>

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